Karl Brandt was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

-American agricultural economist

Agricultural economics

Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock — a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil...

.

Brandt was born in Essen. He fled from Germany to the U.S. in 1933, shortly after the Nazi

Nazism

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 regime came to power. He was successively a professor and researcher at the New School for Social Research, the American Institute for Food Distribution, and Stanford University

Stanford University

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 (where he was affiliated with the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

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).

Brandt was one of the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society

Mont Pelerin Society

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in 1947.